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 <H1>xymon32  0.12 - Overview</H1>
 <P>xymon32 is an instance of BBWin that use different eventlog name and installed with xymon32 name in the path. This will allow xymon32 and BBWin running on same Windows machine. BBWin is an open source Big Brother / Xymon(Hobbit) client for Windows platforms. It will help you to monitor 
 your Windows servers and integrate it in your existing monitoring solution based on Xymon(Hobbit) or Big Brother.</P>
<P>BBWin supports actually different versions of Windows.
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		Windows  7 32-bit and 64-bit</b></td>
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		supported</b></td>
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		Windows  2008 64-bit</b></td>
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		supported</b></td>
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		Windows  2003 64-bit</b></td>
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		supported</b></td>
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		Windows  2003 32-bit</b></td>
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		supported</b></td>
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		Windows Vista</b></td>
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		Not yet officially supported</b></td>
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		Windows Server 2003</b></td>
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		Yes</b></td>
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		Windows XP</b></td>
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		Yes</b></td>
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		Windows 2000</b></td>
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		Yes</b></td>
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		Windows NT 4.0</b></td>
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		Yes, with some restrictions. Somes features are not totally implemented.
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		Windows 95, 98, Me</b></td>
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		No support 
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BBWin is working actually on i386 servers with one or multiple processors. No 64bits version is available at this time.
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 <P>BBWin features include:</P>
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 <LI><b>Native service:</b> BBWin works as a native Windows service.
 <LI><b>BBWin Agent Architecture:</b> BBWin has been developped to be work with agents (dll files) so
 the service is just used as a deamon which schedules the different agents loaded.
 Each monitoring task has its own agent. For example, cpu monitoring is done if you load cpu.dll, memory
 monitorin is done if memory.dll is loaded. With this architecture, the BBWin user can build its own monitoring 
 by deleting probes that he will never used. A small api is available to develop easily new native BBWin agents.
 <LI><b>Many agents available:</b>BBWin is shipped with many agents as cpu, disk, externals, memory, 
 network stats, procs, services, uptime
 which is large enough to monitor common servers.
 <LI><b>Externals support:</b>  BBWin provide the externals agent which permit you to use your own Big Brother
 scripts to monitor specials things that would not be monitoring by default. Externals permit you to enhance 
 the monitoring very easyli.
 <LI><b>Hobbit Centralized compatible:</b> BBWin can work like Unix hobbit clients with a fully centralized configuration on the hobbit server.</LI>
 <LI><b>Big Brother compatible:</b> BBWin has the ambition to be the prefered Hobbit client for
 Windows client. However, because some people are still using the commercial Big Brother software, BBWin
 is compatible with the Big Brother server implementation (implementing some features that don't exists on Hobbit). 
 With this interesting compatibility, people who couldn't migrate to Hobbit for the server side can first replace their
 Big Brother client by installing BBWin.
 <li><b>BBWin command line utility:</b> BBWin is shipped with an executable called BBWinCmd.exe 
 which implement a large part of the Big Brother / Hobbit protocol. You can use it to delete,
 rename hosts for example or to diagnose network problems.
 <li><b>Extra tools:</b> BBWin provide you in addition to the common agents some tools. The package is shipped
 with some migration utilities to convert configuration from other Big Brother clients to the BBWin configuration
 file format in a second. Also, some externals probes are shipped to monitor WLBS clusters, MSCS clusters or 
 simple folders.
 <LI><b>XML Configuration Format:  </b>BBWin configuration is stored into a BBWin.cfg file. This file is in XML format and
 stores all the settings for BBWin. This permits you to backup easily the configuration or create template BBWin configuration
 for different types of servers (Web Frontal, Database server or Application server).
 <LI><b>Native MSI Installer:</b> BBWin is shipped as a native Windows Installer package. It will help you
 to deploy it easily and quickly on your park.</LI>
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 BBWin is released under the GNU GPL licence. See the <a href="Licence.htm">Licence page</a>.
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